From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qe2Mg-00077P-0j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:56:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14DFA21C068; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 09:54:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A7121C068 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 09:54:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDF0DEF5C for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:54:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YdH5katEo-ZL for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:54:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954B9DEF46 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:54:53 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:54:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E100985.5090604@coolmail.se> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107051054.52606.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 99ff86643c6850288d54cbc45bea65d3 On Monday 04 July 2011 17:30:27 Grant wrote: > I'm reading that ASUS and Gigabyte are the way to go for reliability. I'm suspicious of my Asus P7P55D motherboard. It seems just fine with Gentoo, and it has lots of tuning methods built in (over-clocking etc.). I've never used those facilities because the box is already quite fast enough for me and I value stability. But, as I've mentioned here recently, every other distro I've tried hangs randomly - even the live CDs. Someone on an Asus forum suggested I change from PS/2 to USB keyboard and mouse, but meanwhile I've tried switching various things off in the BIOS, and this may be working: I now get at least a few hours with "Asus Express Gate" switched off (whatever that is). I'm just one among many, of course. -- Rgds Peter